{"id":688,"date":"2018-06-28T10:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/?p=688"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:29:07","slug":"688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/2018\/688\/","title":{"rendered":"Christen Rachul: PhD in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Christen Rachul: PhD in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (2016)\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Christen Rachul<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PhD in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (2016)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. What field of work are you in, and what duties are required in your position?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I work in the field of health professions education and specifically in the University of Manitoba\u2019s Office of Educational and Faculty Development, which is a service unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences. In my role as Director of Research in the office I coordinate and consult on educational research projects within the office as well as with faculty members, residents, and students in the faculty; I conduct workshops and organize research events for educational research; and I am developing my own program of research in health professions education that draws on my expertise in applied linguistics and discourse studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. What challenges did you face when looking for work after graduating?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      My PhD research had a somewhat interdisciplinary focus and it was difficult to figure out where I belong and where I should be focusing my job hunting efforts. My unique knowledge base and experience felt like both an advantage and disadvantage when looking for work. I was also a little flexible in terms of location, but had some restrictions for where I could move for a position that limited some of my possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. How did you arrive at your current position?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        I always hear people talk about how getting a job is more about who you know, but my experience has been almost the opposite. I have found two great jobs, a position I held prior to starting my PhD and my current position, by simply responding to a job advertisement I had come across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. What advice would you give to a graduate student looking to follow a career path similar to yours?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          I rely on my diverse research knowledge and experiences in my position and not just my specific and narrow expertise that I gained through my PhD research. If a graduate student were interested in a similar career path as mine, I would encourage them to broaden their research knowledge and skills. Also, I wish I had sought out more training and experience in the administrative aspects of academia, such as chairing committees, planning events, etc. My position includes a lot of those types of duties and more experience would have been very helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Christen Rachul PhD in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (2016) I work in the field of health professions education and specifically in the University of Manitoba\u2019s Office of Educational and Faculty Development, which is a service unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences. In my role as Director of Research in the office I coordinate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-social-sciences","category-career-advice"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/gradpd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}